Coaching Fastpitch

Coaching fastpitch can be very rewarding, if you are prepared with practice plans, drills and a sound knowledge of the game.

Coaching-fastpitch is your online youth softball coaching resource designed to give you, the fastpitch coach, tips and instruction you need to excel as a softball coach. Learn youth softball tips and drills, offense, defense, pitching, hitting, coaching strategies and much more. How you arrived here could be from several different paths. Maybe you are an experienced girls fastpitch softball coach, maybe you played ball in your younger days, maybe nobody else would step up to coach your daughters team and you felt that you had to do it. Whatever your path was to this position, you now have to figure out what to do. The information from this web site is what you need. I will encourage you to attend coaching clinics and your players to go to a softball clinic or a softball camp.

Take a moment to check out the past issues of the Coaching-Fastpitch Newsletter. This is a FREE newsletter that comes out quarterly with interesting fastpitch news. When you sign up for this newsletter, you will also get access to the Fastpitch Drills page. Every coach needs these resources in order to teach the skills to their players. You will find past issues of the newsletter on the "Practice Plans" page found in the menu to the left.

Fastpitch In 1981
As it was seen on 60 Minutes

Interesting to see batters without helmats and facemasks. That's just the way the game was played 33 years ago. In the words of a popular TV commercial of that time, "You've come a long way, baby!".
Safety equipment is only part of the change. Attitudes toward female athletes, opportunities to play, opportunities to work all have improved because of the perseverance of those who pioneered the way. I'm not saying everything is perfect now. Women still make .77 on the dollar compared to men on the average. We are still moving in the right direction.